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MRP'S LETTER
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torfherni'rs Too Distant to
Know Xi'gro IVoblcm.
1EENLEAF IS OVERRULED
f ( Illustration Eartow Man Tell
Ccod Gtcry Ancrt an Irish Jus
tice of the PeaceThat Buga
boo cf ClavCry Again.
Romi fifty years apo there vaa
loKmaUc old tquiro In the seven
nUjftrk-t of this, CaEs county,
jwhoso i.ime was Jim McGinnls. He
I had plenty of what Is called good horso
jScnso, a determined will and abund
ance of prejudice. Ho won tho J. P.
machlno In that district for nbout
twenty years, and his final Judgment
la a caso was the law of tho BotlJe
mcnt. Nobody dared to appeal or
carry the caso up for fear of off end Ins
him anl losing tho next case they had
la tcourt.
One time a fellow sued another fel
low for the hlro of a negro. Jud&o
Farrott was on one side, and Colonel
Abda Johnson cn the other, and when
tho Judge started to read his law from
Ctreenleaf on "Evidence," Colonel
Johnson etopped him and made tho
point that Mr. Grcenleaf was a very
emart man and had writ a power of
good law, but that he was a yankeo
anf.'ved in Boston and knew no more
aboyft hiring negroes than a heathen
fcnows aoout Sunday. Tho old squire
asked for the book, and looked over
the tRle page, saw that it was printed
In Boston and so he ruled It out of his
court, and Parrott lost his case. The
squire said that Mr. Grecnleaf lived
a little too fur off to be familiar witb
tho business.
I've seen a good many pieces of late
thou" "the negro and the great 60uih
era f problem. The people up north
begin" to admit that they can't see
through it.
North Too Far Away.
Ever since the war they have been
teling U3 what to do with the darkies,
I and they have been watching us to see
whether we did it or not, and they ae
rially think we'd put 'em back in slav
ey again if we could. They are in
finest about this business, I reckon
some of 'em die and leave a whole
f-"of money for the poor negro
idfin glad of it. I wish that more
of 'em would die and do the same
thing, but what I rise to remark is
this: 'ihey know no more about the
negro than Mr. Greenleaf did, and
their Judgment ain't worth a cent. I
would j'oot give a farthing for any
man 'bV judgment about darkies who
hadnHrjeen born and raised with 'em
and owned 'em. It ta&es a long time
to learn the traits and instincts of a
race of people. The yankee never
will know what the negro Is, for he
never knew him in a state of slavery.
The yankee who came south sixty
yfyjrs ago, and domiciled with us know
jVbout him, and I will take th3ir
" l00!011' kut wnen I ncar .theaa modern
.j" fVn philosophizing and dictating
( about hm in a consequential manner,
i I unconsciously raise my foot to kick
somebody. There are lots of folks ut
about Boston who are looking over
their spectacles at us, and din't know
they had a Tevvksbury almshouse.
If thC would lower their sights they
wouju have a power of work to do at
home. I bought a leather purse for
Mrs. Aarp once and she won't, use it
for it came from Boston, and she la
afraid It was made out ot a human
bide that was tanned from Tewksbury
I've got no pathetic sentiment abo: t
the nigger. The yankees passed a
t ,' Tsrhole lot of amendments to the oonstl-
"on to put him on an equal footiig
is, socially and every other way,
ley were the first'! break 'em.
! Indians had been down here in
r sj' u-ft of tne 'jleger, the whole vankeo
iation would have been friends, but
now they are their enemies and keep
' driving-' them further and further into
the ynderness and cheating 'en out
of aAlthe government gives 'em. We
have gOt to study races just like we
do horses and cattle. The Anglo-Sax-
on has got his traits and instincts and
so has the Indian and the nigger and
the heathen Chinese. Yv'e cu3s the
.Je f the Italian, and why should't
vfC iAider the nigger with the same
philosophy. Some folks seem to think
we owe him a good deal because he
didn't cut up and rip around during
the war, but I. don't. He didn't care
anything about it and ho don't caro
now. It is not his nature. He had
,lit'V rather have a master than not
to t ;e him, and the truth is most of
"cf Knave got 'em and they always
will have 'em.
Slavery Was Humane.
We are tired cf all this nonseni
about slavery. It was no blot. It was
i nature. There are a heap of people
. now In the south who look upon slav
ery like it was Achat's wedge of gold
aad perished under tie conderanaMn
of God and man, but I don't wnnt any
body to teach my children any mien,
slanders, for I know it was In the
ninln a htimano Institution, and if flu)
uUgrr Is ary better off now than he
used to bo, I can't sen. The white
r better off, a lung ways, but the
nkger ain't. I'vo great respoct for .ho
old tltiin darkle.. I know lots of 'era
I would fight for. If-1 was to boo a
man imposing on my good old faithful
friend. Tip. I would flht for him like
I would fight for my children. I love
those good old darkles. I am vllllnj
to live with 'em and dlo with 'cm, and
bo buried with 'em in ttio fame grave
yard and when Gabriel blows hi horn
I can rise from the dead with 'em with
out. any fear that It will destroy tho
hilarity of tho oer-nslon, as General
Toombs said.
Lovei Old Darkiee.
I love these old darkles, not as my
equals, but as I Jovo my children. I
lovo them becauso they iove mo and
are dependent upon me. The relation
between tho white and black race la
by naturo one of protection on the ono
sldo and dependenco upon the other,
and when it ceases -to bo that I have
no uso for the nigger. It Is always
a pleasure to mo to befriend 'em when
want my friendship and my help,
but when they aspire to bo ay equal
and put on independent airs. I've got
no further sympathy. I have been
raised to lock upon negroes as chil
dren, children In youth, and children
in manhood and old age. I didn't have
any hand in making em that way. It
is their human naturo and they can't
help it, and I have a sovereign con
tempt for any effort their people are
making to change their relation to ht,
for it can't be done.
The education of the nigger is a
humbug, so far as to make him a good
clclzen. It haj been tried already,
and has proved a failure. His besl
education is one of contact, close con
tact with the white race. If wo will
let the negro alone and keep him out
of poitlc3 he will got along very well
and there will be no problem to solve.
There never would have boon any
problem if he had been let alone. . II
has no business with offico or in iha
Jury box or In the legislature, and he
never will have. This Is a white man'i
government and the white man must
govern it. The Anglo-baxon is the
dominant race. We don't want the
CJliinaman nor tho Indian to make our
laws. As a laborer and a servant and
dependent I had rather have he negro
than any race upon earth, and that re
lation to us just suits him, and when
you try to lift him out of it you make
him a. fool and a vagabond and render
him unhappy. I don't want him a
slave any more, for his slavery was no
advantage to us. I had a lot of 'em
myself and I know they were no profit
to anybody except, a few exacting mas
ters who made of slavery all the "foul
blot" there ever was In it. There is
no problem to solve unless we make
one.
Tho white folks can't all be Vander
bilts and the niggers on't bo white
folks. Let us all be content with our
destiny and not fuss around because
somebody else is better off. Let ua
take things as we find 'em and do the
best we can. Folks are very much
like horses. If you breed 'em too fine
they are not fit for the wagon or plow.
Wo have got to have different sorts of
folks, and nature knew it, or she
wouldn't have made 'em different.
Parallel of the Indian.
This morbid sympathy for the poor
negro Is wasted. Why not have it for
the Indian? We robbed him of hla
land and Tun him off and have been
cheating him ever since. He Is, by
nature, of a higher order of humanity
than the negro. He has more pride
and more emotion. He Las more r
veiige and more gratitude, for these
two things always go together. You
can't wean him from the forest, for
that is hh nature.
The negro loves to depend upon the
white man and the white man loves
the homage of the negro. It suits and
flt3 both races and I hope it will stay
so. I heard an old physician say that
he had never seen a great-grandchUd
that descended from mulatto parents
in a mulatto succession. The crossing
of race3 has never Improved them.
Not even will the Jew and the Gentile
mix with harmony. John Randolph
boasted of his Pocahontas blood, but I
reckon It run out in John, for that was
the last of It. History makes no record
of two races living together in peace
unless one was in a state of depend
ence upon the other. Our modern phil
anthropists are deceiving the negro
when they flatter him with a capacity
equal to the whP.e3 in fitness to invent
or to govern, or to rise to the heroic
or the sublime. I recKon if one of
our millionaires was to die and leave
his money for the education of poor
white children would be a violation
of some of the constitutional amend
ments We want to help the nego,
but we want him to help himself first.
He ha3 got to work out his own ad
vancement by Industry and by saving
what he makes before education will
do him any good. Br. Mayo, of Bos
ton, was the superintendent of edu
cation la that state, and he said:
"Tho negroes must to told that no
jxxjpl.j In any land was ever p mar
Ytdoi!y b-1 by ProvlJenco art they
have, U' n f( r 2.'o yoirs, IndM aU
of the. good tb'-ro was In slavery waa
for th'-m. It was that Revere school
of regualur wu.'k, and that drill In the
primeval virtues whh-h every race
mufti g't at the start and their slavery
was a charity school, compared with
tho desolation and tyrunny by which
tho European nations came up to their
present civilized life. If the Huuthf rn
frc.'wlmn now lie down In to'ld Indif
ference to their futuro they will Je
eervo all that their most conlump-
t::c;:3 critic 3 say of them."
Thl3 13 sensible talk. There Is no
foul blot In that view of (slavery and
it is good talk to the negro. What t!ie
bad negro wants Is less chalngang and
more whipping, and the bad whl'o
man should be punished tho same
way. BILL AUP la Atlanta Constitu
tion. ARMY AND NAVY FLAC3.
SLe and Proportion of the Govern
ment Standards.
The rnanner of arranging tho stars
In the union of the American flag has
nevpr been prescribed by an act of
Congress, and In consequence there
tns been a striking lack of uniformity
In this m?.ttr. Designs of tho flag
In the keeping of the Government,
however, show that the early custom
was to insert tho stars in parallel
row3 across the blue field. This cus
tom has, it 13 believed, been observed
In the navy since 1818, at which date
an order from the President directed
3ueh an arrangement to be male of
the star3. In the army too, the stars
have always been arranged in hoiizon
tal rows across the blue field, but Tiot
alway3 In vertical rows; ths general
effect, however, being about the name
as the naval flag. Hereafter there
will b no difference In the arrange
ment of the stars between the army
ind navy, as" an agreement has been
arrived at between the War and Navy
Departments.
While the sizes of the Government
fla3 are not prescribed by statute
law, they are fixed by regulations of
the army and navy, which have been
based upon convenienc?, utility and
beauty, and the exigencies of the ser
vice. The storm and recruiting flags
measure each eight feet, in length by
four feet two inches hi width. The
post flag measures 20 feet in length
by 10 feet in widLh. The garrison
flag, hoisted only on great occasions
and national holidays measures 06
feet in longth by 20 f?et in width. The
union is always one-third of the length
of the flag, and extends to the lower
fcdge of the fourth red stripe from the
top. The national colors carried by
reglment3 of infantry and artillery and
the battalion of engineers are made
of Bilk. They are six feet six inches
long and six feet wide; the union be
ing 81 inches In length and extend
ing to the lower edge of the fourth
red stripe from the top.
CARfl OF PALMS.
Once every week the surface of the
leaves should be sponged off. Gloves
should be worn when the operation Is
performed, as contact with the hand
turns the edges of the leaves yellow.
Palms should not be watered from
above unless they are immediately
wiped off, as each drop of moisture
allowed to stand on the leaf causes
it to turn yellow. When a room
swept or dusted, the plants should be
covered, as the du3t will otherwise
settle on the leaves and clog the pores
through which the plant breathes
Most palms and ferns do not like gas
light, and often when left In an at
mo3phere charged with it will droop
The windows should .be opened and
the room well aired twlc? a day. The
plants should be turned around each
day, so that one side after another is
exposed to the light, as the leaves will
naturally grow out toward the Bun
lizht. A NEW WAY TO SWEEP.
There is in the doing of little things
even in housework, a right way and
wrong way a good way and a bad
way. Consider for a moment the Item
of sweeping with a broom. The next
time you undertake it notice your
broom. Do you find that you hold it
or move It rather in front of you th
brush further f orw ard than the handle
each stroke raising the brush and with
it a cloud of dust into the air and
space beyond? If so, try this way:
Stand with the broom rather behind
you. partly facing it the brush fur
ther back than the tip of the handle.
Used in thl way you will find that the
dust rises no higher than the brush;
that, in fcL-t, little rises, but Is gradu
ally removed to one central point,
where it may be easily gathered into
the dust pan. Swept In this way even
a dusty room may be perfectly tidied
without discomfort to an) person who
may be obliged "0 remain in it during
the process. The Household Ledger.
A SERMON FOR SUNDAY
AM ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ON "CHRiS
TIANITY'S BROAD MINDED NESS."
Tli I!fv. Ir. llPitrjr C. Kwriitu-I lonlrimd
llin (liunli Villi lit 11 Nnrrnw -(.hii-i
Aviti. Mmi.llur r Oin M Im-i ol
Iriflllou I'lilnlnl Out hi Prti.ll.
N w Voimc City.-Dr. lb nrr C. Swi nt
I, nv'or of St. Luke' Church. Clinton
Ti
avenue, iipr l"nltoii ulnct, prcn-lifd Sim-
I.V ill 1 llC: . i1,li'lniMicilCsi( (if ( 111 !
tiitwlc. toiik Im tct from Prmlnu
Xixi'ti: "'li- Commandment m exceed inu
I ' . . 1 1 . n
'1 ill. J n . .-SM'IIWI I Kil III :
Tin- Sii m" Col 1 .hk called men into ft
i!;icc 01" khcitv mid Im cct tln ir feet in a
arte lo mi. tx.imiM', 11 is tcnclimi'i
.ifv IIm whole tone i.lu!inte mid throve
His linnidnimdcd ncM. No one who rn;litlv
iipl'iveuitcK the tionpej ran well contend
tli.it it k' I; to rtnke human nature tminller
ruid feebler than it i. or that it would
ovmt the dignity and le-e-en t he freedom
nd b.uiiHii the opportunities of human
il'e.
In the lirTmdmindednpM of Jesus is onp
of His most notable characteristics. !!
ivcd in (lie open, and II is every word
indicates the coniprelu'nmvenoM ot lln
tliinkii:'? nnd the perfect mnity of ln
conclusions. He is the broadest bemif
lias trod tins enrth nnd He ban civen
the hrnad"t religion that man has known.
n relijfiort winch is not racial, national or
provincial, hut worldwide. It is intended
to inspire the most liberal idea nnd to
m ike t!ie largest men. It is the embodi
ment of liroadmindedness in doctrine nnd
leal, in its on look, its estimata of possi
bilities, nnd its conceptions of human des
tinv. Kverv follower of Christ should divest
limself ns far possible of narrowness nnd
pettiness in living hi life nnd doina his
work. Let him be thonghtful and honest
nnd industrious nnd brave: let him bo
san", broadminded in his ideas'' generous
in his principles nnd loyal in his conscience.
tie is not called unon to emu ate tha
pnltry disposition of the past, or to try
to restore t ho reiri.ne ot a bvcone rip or to
clamor for the return of conditions which
were W'c-ll enough fur a younger civilization.
Imt which should not be installed in Ihd
twentieth century. Peliion is not super
stition. faith is not biirotry, godliness is
not into. trance.
We nil do well to take account of the
Lord's admonition conccrninsr the use of.
tnguage. lie has warned us that we must
answer at the last for every idle word wc
speak. How many idle words are used,'
nnd how massive is human guilt in this
particular. Even those words which
should bp pronounced with reverence are
mixed with frivolities. Other words which
should be used always seriously and with
the utmost accuracy are connected with
the pronouncements of carrulous brains
and (lippant lips. 'T.readth" is one of the
words against which people e.n most often,
so that earnest souls have almost reached
the point of suspecting its tenor whenever
they hear it. In common parlance n
''broad" Komnnist is a Roman Catholic
who cares little or nothing for his church
or for the relicion which it nreaehes. A
uroau Christian is a mnn who. thoui?h
he may not have broke-i with Christianity,
has iio definite religious principles, no
clearly slateij rales of rieht and wrong,
mri has no tault to tind with a propaganda,
the success of which would mean not
only the overthrow of faith but the ruin
of society. It is supposed to be "broad"
to be not too scrupulous about one's amuse
ments, to encourage irreligion. to disregard
the sanctities of Sunday. It is supposed
to be "broad" to sav and to do nothing
that would indicate that one has religious
feelings, to put himself, in the attitude of
sympathy with bad things. It is supposed
to be "broad" to upset the Bible, to cast
discredit upon the church, to brand holy
traditions as a pack of lies, to make the
gonel mean as little as possible, to reduce
religion, not to its lowest terms, but to no
terms at nil. Thus the noble word is
clothed with a sense which it ought not to
have. When people tell of a "broad state
ment" they mean a statement which it
suspicious, if not inaccurate. When the?
refer to a "broad story" they mean a story
which is not quite decent, it were weil
to distinguish between a true breadth and
a spurious breadth, so that we might be
spared from the ills that follow in the train
of a mere catchword, and have the blessing
nnd the power which are imparted by the
breadth of thought and sympathy which
-is one of the very finest marks of a son
of God.
From whatever standpoint it is viewed
I he religion of Jesus Christ is characterized
for its brnadmindedness. It is to-day the
only world religion, and the church looks
forward to the time when all the people
of all the nations will become the Lord's
disciples. An examination of the theories
or schemes which have been set up in
opposition to or rivalry with the everlast
ing gospel will disclose their essential nar
rowness, both as to ideas nnd life. In con
trrfst with the notions held by those who
stand aloof from Christ, how broad and
strong is the platform of Christian belief!
In nil the world there is no creed or con
fession which is so amn'e and liberal and
comprehensive as the Nieene creed. It is
great in what it says and in what it does
not sav, in what it defines and what it re
fuses to dofire. Its expressions and its
reticence are significant nnd impressive. In
it technical terns have been reduced to n
minimum, nnd it stands ns an imfailinj
source of truth and aspiration which shall
bless and enrich all classes of humanity un
til the close of the latest age. It proposes
the divinity of the Trinity and the tiinitv
of divinity, but not in the forms of phil
5sophv. It dec'ave? the Fatherhood of Uo.l,
t lie Sonsliip of Christ, the perpetual min
istry of the Holy Ghost, but not in the
elaborate phrases of the theologian. It
upholds the virgin birth of Jesus. His
worldwide office and His omnipotent en
deavors "for us men and for our salvation."
but without the glosses of a mistaken
devotion. It proclaims the continuity
of the church of the apostle?, but without
the speculations and dicta of the ecclesi
olouist. It announces the nearness oF God's
children in every world, and the blessed
life of endless felicity which awaits the
souls that He has redeemed, but without
the fancies and guesses nnd vnenrics which
have vainly tried to explore the hereafter.
These truths nre not only re. avkable in.
the manner of their statement, but nlso in
themselves. They nre the foundation on
which we are asked to build while we nre
here, nnd the structure of our tlioucihtri
and motives and efforts should be spacious
accordingly.
What an unspeakable crime it is to at
tack such a belief on the score of its al
leged narrowness. It presents the largest
ideas that man has known, and it presents
them in the largest po.ssible way. Its por
trayal of Jehovah is in harmony with His
divine majesty; its account of Jesus has
the sweetness nnd reverence of the gosoel
according to St. John; its interpretation
of the Holy Spirit is a comforting and in
spiring doctrine for the needs and sorrows
and possibilities of the present; its declara
tion of the church marks it as a society
r-i s.. H-e r.il blessinc which was founded
r ' ', a cautiful angel.
it point to "th" bfe of tit world tt come,"
'1 lit nr the de.ireitt of all doctrines, th
bi-t and the I ruhUtit, the l.ti g-t ' nttd
ino.t liberal. hi lever e!ne tln-y .ue, they
ere not contracted or ptltry, but m cath
olic n (Jul nti 1 as tinivcin.il ns man. In
deed, our religion is th only t h i n ni th
world Cmt proit-Kci to demre the nileifiiic
of everybody. Jt has the length -mid
breadth and depth nn.i, height ot the low
of God in Jesim ChriKt our Iird. It does)
pot K'VI' us tii'Ul or conjecture, but only
the commandment of God which is "ex
ceedmj bload."
'J ii clever jif-ttifoggcr can make it ddli
cult for us to defend anything, though wo
may be infallibly mire of it tnithfuhicM.
Ihe cross examiner may micceed n lar a
to bring i's to the verge ot d I'lliluc; Hm
testimony id our own senses. Kvcu ) are
doubt easily possible coei el ni tig the Inat
tci of Christian belief. It i not the pur
pose of this discourse, however, to discus,
the grounds of skepticism except in so lar
as they would impeach the breadth ot
Chi istianily. Several forms ot unbelief,
or of indilTercnce, which is in a sense tin;
name thing logically, present a mirry spec
tacle in the presence of the imdusivciics
of the Gospel. What are the truths tor
which thev stand, and how real are those
truths? They talk perhaps of their intel
1 'ii.ihty, but they should remember that
the men who are responsible lor the .Ni
cotic Creed were paNtmaster as meta
physician. They refer to the liberty
of which they nre the champions, but th
liberty which they advocatj is ir. essence
the very doctrine ot nihilists nnd anarch
ists in society and polities. With blar
of trumpet they herald their own broad
mindedness but if they had their way, ami
if t..cv could sweep religion from the lacw
of the earth, burn up the lliblcs, dynamite
the churches, it requires no prophet t "
foretell what a dreadful situation would
ensue as the result of their havoc. The
man who puts agnosticism against tho
creed has nothing to give this world except
what would make men more narrow than
thev are, nnd would speedily plunge tlier.t
int conditions lirst of civili.od paganism
n d ft little later of rank barbarism. The
skeptic i no more an apostle of liberality
than is the anarchist an apostle of liberty.
With great regret it must be confessed
that there are and have been multitudes
of narrow-minded Christians. Inasmuch
human nature finds it difficult to attain
onto libeialitv, it is not to be wondered ni
that so many fall snort ot the broadth of
our holy religion. Christians have not
enly been per.-ecuted, but they have ac
tually persecuted one another, because of
differences of opinio:). Oniy too frequently
have they failed to recognize tiie com
prehensiveness of the Gospel, nnd they
nrefer their eonfessions to the caHiolic
faith nnd their sects to tne catholic
Muirch. It is simply impossible to npolo
jize for them or to offer any argument in
?xtennation of their grievous offenses alontr
:his line. They have restricted their Clod
nd their P.ible and their creed, and
nave stood up stoutly to rexist the large
nindedness of their Lord. Hut this doe)
aot ready a fleet the issue which we hive
n hand." It does not nr. all impair our
;onlention that (he gospel of Christ, itself
not Protestantism or Puritanism or
Medievalism, but Hie gospel contains the
broadest doctrines, the broadest ideas of
3od and of man and of destiny, and the
3-oidest working principle of thought and
if life.
God's "command'Oicnt is exceeding
rnnd" in its practical npnlication to man's)
onditions. It preaches God' Fatherhood,
vhich is a mighty foundation for the in
;elleetual life, and man's brotherhood,
vhieh makes the scope of moral obligation,
jod's re'ation to us is most assuring, and
ur relation to Him and to all our broth
ts makes the theatre of action and sets
'oi'th t'ip sphere of conscience, sympathy
tnd endeavor. One of the miseries of ir
e'igion is that it despoils humanity of nlf
:his. The heart which cares not for the
loetrines of Christian belief is sadly im
joverished and reduces this present exist
;nce to a small affair, for it has nothing;
n sav of fhe higher things or of an eternity
f blessedness, and nothing that avails for
;he enlargement of aspiration and the re
inforcement of energy. Christ truly dis
covered the individual.' He argued that
nan's soul was more iMportant than the
jain of the whole world; He came ex
pressly to lift human nature out of its
imallness and to place it in an environment
ivhere the sons of God rightly belong; He
revealed the model which is nothing less
;han the character of the King of kings,
tnd called all the sons of men to a royat
life; He disclosed a large meaning for du
ties and griefs, plensures and possibilities;
fTe would have His people stand on the
Mount of the Ascension whence they cart
see the present in its perspective, and have
in expansive outlook for the study of them
selves and their lives. The broadminded
Lord has given a broadminded religion for
rcen when thev pray and work and suffer,
ind .IIe would inspire them to rise un
:o the obligations and opportunities which
unit upon them erery hour in the day.
How narrow is the average man! Mod
?rn conditions are not an unmixed boon
:o the masses. There have been mrtny
rains, but there have been many losses
ilso. Among the losses in the world as we
snow it to-day is the almost inevitable
tendency of our wav of livinrr and our
methods of business to curtail th" individ
,i."l in the livncr of his life and the doinj
f his work. More and more are the peo
ple of the workaday world hampered and
"estri-tM bv the demand for specialization.
l..e individual is hems' called upon to do
?oree one task and to do it over and over
I'ain three hundred days in the year, nil
?f which is equivalent to shutting hitti
within confines where he can scaeely hope
to develop into his best s"lf. This effect
is one of the deplorable ills of the times.
rh rules of ofiices and factories and pinna
which entourage erncrts is ruinous to the
individual who indeed learns to do one
thin nerfectly. but who is thus hindered
from knowing anything eUe outside of his
dailv task. Th"n. too. the spirit of the
business man that makes him ambitious
and satisfied to Income a man of business
and thus reduce his life to the level of a
mere mone-maker. is liklv to produce
tho same direful result. Xo one should
willingly become a machine. In spite of
the advancement which is one of tli won
ders of the age. the people of the United
States are now face to face with a situation
which soie'y requires a crusade in favor of
brondminclcdnesc a cruade that will ex
hort the people, in Fpite of discourage
ment to the contrary, to find leisure for
considering tonics and resorting to occu
pations in addition to those which belong
to their daily engagements. We nmst sim
ply make time for thought and wading 'inj
recreation; we must rise to the glorious
liberty of the children of God; we must
insist for ourselves that the most import
ant things are not merrt and drink, but the
kiidoin of God and His righteousness.
We ned the broadmindedness of Jes.
We need His outlook. His doctrine. II is
model of thoutrht and life, His symmetry
of character, lbs proportions of manhood,
'he Siviour of mankind would save us
from pettiness and i'liberality. He would
ba -e us accept God's largest estimate of
oi: - Ives. He would call us to a bfe which
will issue at last in the henvenly land. He
wodd Hll vis in mind and heart and soul
with God's commandment which is so ex
ceeding broad. .